Other:Humphry was found 644 still images of child exploitation material in three computer hard drives. In 2005, he was charged with the indecent treatment of a child, who was known to him and served a period of imprisonment.

Arrest warrant issued over internet child pornography

Jason Rawlins

Updated Wed Aug 25, 2010 7:01am AEST

An arrest warrant has been issued for a Queensland man after he lost an appeal against his jail sentence for child pornography offences.

Damien Joshua Smith was sentenced to 18-months in jail, to be suspended after three months, when he pleaded guilty in the District Court in Ipswich earlier this year to using the Internet to access child pornography.

Some of the images were in the worst category.

He was granted bail pending the outcome of an appeal against the severity of his sentence.

But the Court of Appeal said the principle of general deterrence was important in Smith’s case and dismissed his appeal.

The court issued a warrant for Smith’s arrest, but it will not be executed for a week to give Smith time to hand himself in.

Offence: Pleaded guilty to eight counts of indecent treatment of a child under 16, one count each of attempted carnal knowledge with a child under 16, possessing child exploitation material and using electronic communication with intent to procure a person under 16 years of age to engage in a sexual act.

Sentence: Sentenced to two years and three months in prison to be wholly suspended after nine months.

Offence: Pleaded guilty to nine counts of using the Internet to expose a child under 16 to indecent material and four counts of possessing child-abuse computer games over a three-week period in August 2003.

Sentence: Jailed for three months, an additional three years’ probation & undertake a sex offenders’ course upon release from prison.

Other: Offered to pay a police officer, posing as a 13-year-old girl, $10 if she would let him take her virginity & tried to coax her to have a “threesome” with another 13 year old girl.

Teacher jailed after plying student with drugs and abusing him

A former Queensland teacher has been convicted of sexually abusing a 13-year-old student after plying him with drugs and alcohol.

Luke Euthimios Margaritis was 26 when he met the boy while teaching at St Edmund’s College and arranged visits at his home in Limestone Street, Ipswich, west of Brisbane, before and after school.

There, he would give the boy alcohol and the drug amyl nitrite, an inhalant which affects consciousness and cognition.

The boy was then forced to watch pornographic films with his teacher and perform sexual acts on him, with the offences occurring between February and December 1995 but the victim only reporting the abuse to police early last year.

In sentencing the man to five years’ prison, Brisbane District Court Judge John Baulch SC said the former teacher’s behaviour had been “calculating and predatory”.